We started this project to become more conscious about healthy urban living, where our food was coming from, how it was grown, and how we could reduce our carbon footprint by not relying on supermarkets, while supporting local farmers markets.
In 2011 we learned a lot about indoor gardening from within a loft in downtown Atlanta, GA. Since then we’ve moved to a house and although we have new obstacles ahead we are still Growing Within.

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Kombucha - How to Make it

What Is Kombucha Tea?

Kombucha starts out as a sugary tea, which is then fermented with the help of a scoby. “SCOBY” is actually an acronym for “symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.” It’s very close cousins to the mother used to make vinegar.

The scoby bacteria and yeast eat most of the sugar in the tea, transforming the tea into a refreshingly fizzy, slightly sour fermented (but mostly non-alcoholic) beverage that is relatively low in calories and sugar.

The SCOBY

Let’s talk about that scoby. It’s weird, right?! It floats, it’s rubbery and slightly spongy, brown stringy bits hang from it, and it transforms sugary tea into something fizzy and sour. It’s totally weird. But if you take a step back, it’s also pretty awesome.

There are a lot of theories about why the bacteria and yeast form this jelly-like layer of cellulose at the top of the kombucha. The most plausible that I’ve found is that it protects the fermenting tea from the air and helps maintain a very specific environment inside the jar that is shielded from outsiders, aka unfriendly bacteria.

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I am a photographer currently living in Columbus, GA. During the winter of 2010 I started taking all of these food pictures without knowing what I wanted to do with them. Right around that time we started to become more conscious about our food and by March we had our first indoor garden.
Besides all of the food photography, I also have a fine art portfolio www.calderonfoto.com.
In 2011 I created 'Femmes du Monde' for my jewelry design, and in 2012 'Naked Stitch' emerged as an online scarf shop. Needless to say managing all my sites, shops, facebook pages and separate blogs just became to overwhelming, so today here I am. I am the Artist behind all the labels. Welcome!